One of the challenges you will face will be being good enough to be able to work independently and without much oversight, while staying out of the leadership/m

One of the challenges you will face will be being good enough to be able to work independently and without much oversight, while staying out of the leadership/management tracks. You will have to learn to walk the line of being very reliable, but not over-delivering. This is important because I think you have two primary options: 1. Aim for a full time low compensation with a job that you can easily do in 10 hours a week. You tend to still have to be "available" for meetings and stuff throughout the week, so this is less ideal. 2. Aim for a part time high compensation job and negotiate your availability/workload. For example, aim for the top end of your salary, but ask to work only 2-3 days a week for 40-60% of the salary. This is hard to get. Not a lot of places will go for this; they want team players working more than 40 hours a week. Some places do, you just have to ask, and be able to actually sell them on the idea. The real answer is 'passive income', but that's a different ballgame. If you're just trying to work less, I would do one of the above (and I have done both personally).